Bible verse
Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
Ecclesiastes 10:14 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ecclesiastes 10.
10 If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.
11 If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
12 The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.
13 The beginning of his talk is folly, and the end of his speech is evil madness.
14 Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
15 The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
16 Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.
17 Blessed are you, O land whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness.
18 Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.
KJV
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
ASV
A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?
ERV
A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?
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